MedianXL Cube Recipes

Horadric Cube recipes can be one of the more interesting and confusing features in a Diablo 2 mod. To avoid information overload - this wiki is meant for new players to the mod, after all - only the more common recipes are listed. For a complete listing of recipes, including sacred items, crafting, and character challenges, please visit the official website.

Contents

Basics: Reagents and Crafting Points

Before we start listing recipes, be aware that in MedianXL several of them require special items called reagents. Some recipes also have a further special requirement called Crafting Points.

Reagents

Victim's Heart, Meditation Candle

- These may be purchased from any magic items vendor.

Mystic Orb

- These may be purchased from any magic items vendor or dropped by monsters. Not all types may be bought.

Portable Shrine

- These orange crosses are dropped late in Terror and Destruction difficulties. They allow you to create and consecrate items.

Arcane Shard

- These are obtained by disenchanting unique items.

Arcane Crystal

- Arcane Shards are not useful on their own, but can be cubed in sets of 5 to obtain these.

Crafting Points

Several recipes have this new requirement type. Crafting Points appear as affixes on items. Therefore, to meet a recipe's crafting point requirement, you must wear items that have crafting points on them. If the total number of crafting points you have equals or exceeds the recipe requirement, then you will be able to do it.

Tip: Crafting points aren't very common. Try to collect a set of crafting points equipment. Remember, you only need to wear them when you are attempting a recipe.

Pearl of Wisdom

When you create a character, it will receive a Pearl of Wisdom. This little item gives hints to new players about the mod. Simply cube it to read other pearls of wisdom.

Pearl of Wisdom $ \Rightarrow $ next Pearl of Wisdom

Gems and Runes

Gem upgrading

Upgrading gems now only requires two of the same quality gem instead of three.

Appropriate item type means the item must match the Mystic Orb requirement. This requirement is displayed in each Mystic Orb's description. For example, some Mystic Orbs say Cube this with armor.

Affix removal

This recipe consumes all the magic in an item, leaving a basic damaged low quality item. Why? You may want the base item to use for a runeword, for example, when you find a blue magic item you don't need.

Unlike the previous recipe, this one retains the item type and quality. If you use a blue item, it'll produce a blue item. What it changes is the magical affixes and number of sockets on it. So for example if you find a rare sword of a base type you want but you don't like the mods on it, use this recipe to change the mods while keeping the sword.

superior / magic / rare item + rune $ \Rightarrow $ reroll item

Zomghelp recipe

Yes, this is the official name for it on the mod's website. If you have very bad luck and no useful items, this will give you some baseline items. It's unlikely you'll be this desperate given that the mod has fairly generous drop rates and you could just farm the area you can't pass, but the option is here.

It's not a total ripoff; the resulting magic item has built-in +25% Enhanced Damage (for weapons) or +25% Enhanced Defence (for armor) if you use it at level 1, and an additional +2% for each higher character level.

Lucky modifier

This allows you to use 3 runes for the chance to add an extra bonus to an item.

This recipe gives a 20% chance to add the following bonuses, depending on the item type:Weapon: +40% Enhanced Damage, 100% bonus to Attack RatingArmor: +40% Enhanced Defence, Damage Reduced by 1%Amulet: +1 to All SkillsRing: +10% to Spell DamageQuiver: 5% bonus to All AttributesJewel: +2 to Strength, +2 to Dexterity, +2 to Energy, +2 to Vitality

Quality Mod Recipes

Socket Drill

This adds sockets to an item. The more jewels you feed, the more sockets you get - up to the item's limit.

This upgrades the base item type to the next quality tier. Your item mods will remain intact, but the base quality will have upgraded stats (as well as requirements). Note: due to an unfortunate bug in the game (not mod), ethereal items cannot be uptiered.

Item Reroll Recipes

Reroll non-magical to magic

This rerolls any non-magical (grey, or white) item and upgrades it to a blue magic item. Although blues are not very powerful compared to what else is out there, they have their uses, especially as preparation for further upgrades - notably for honorific items. See the next two recipes.

This turns blue magic items into yellow rares. Note that the process lowers the output item level to 85% of the input item level, with a corresponding drop in affixes if applicable. For example, using a hypothetic level 100 item will result in a level 85 item; therefore the mods on the output will be restricted to affixes that can occur on level 85 items (and not level 100 items).

magic item + gem + rune $ \Rightarrow $ reroll item as rare

Reroll magic to honorific

Honorifics are blank items that receive a double bonus from Mystic Orbs. They are green in color, have no mods, and have the max number of sockets available in them. The primary purpose is to take advantage of high end Mystic Orbs.

Yes, it's here -_- You need to have already slain Baal in the current difficulty, and do this recipe while standing in the Rogue Encampment in Act 1.

Wirt's Leg + tome of Town Portal $ \Rightarrow $ Cow Level portal

Warning! The Cow Level is now a Heroic Area.

Alchemy

Elixirs in MedianXL are consumeable items that grant you a powerful effect with a limited duration of time. They can be dropped by monsters, but you can concoct your own. Please bear in mind that alchemy recipes have a 500 Crafting Point requirement.